DO SMITH

The next DO SMITH event, which will be held at our offices, will be on 27 September when we’ll be focussing on suggesting solutions to a particularly interesting problem facing St Werburghs City Farm.  This is a green oasis in the heart of Bristol and a hub for the local community.  I can personally vouch for it being a great place to take inquisitive small children at the weekend.

In a change from previous events we’ll be inviting social entrepreneurs who’ve been the subject of past events to join the business owners on the other side of the table to allow them to contribute.

It should be a great evening and we look forward to welcoming the following entrepreneurs and social enterprises:

The sixth DO SMITH event is this coming Tuesday (10th July) at Friska Food, 6 to 9 pm. The focus of the event will be “engaging social enterprises”.  It will be an informal evening where we will introduce small do’s and define the social enterprise audience. We will also hear from our most recent SMALL DO social entrepreneur Joe at Kick Start Training on what happened at the last event and an update.

There will be plenty to eat and drink and, based on previous events, it will be an enjoyable few hours with like-minded business owners and social enterprises.

Joe Constant from the social enterprise Kick Start gives his feedback the day after their DO SMITH event. Visit their website www.kickstartenterprise.com to find out more about the great work that they do.

The invitations have now been emailed out for the BIG DO event on 10 July.  Drop us a line if you were expecting to receive one but didn’t.

Our BIG DOs are the perfect opportunity to come together with like-minded entrepreneurs and Social Enterprises plus…

• find out about our up-coming DOs;
• hear what happened at our most recent SMALL DO for social entrepreneur Kick Start Training;
• propose social enterprises you know who would benefit;
• try out Friska’s Feel Good Food (and drink), courtesy of us.

We’re really looking forward to it.  If you would like to be invited to this or future events please drop us a line: –  iwillbethere@do-smith.co.uk

The last DO SMITH event which focused on the social enterprise Kick Start went very well and the next event will be a ‘BIG DO’ get together on 10 July similar to the one we held at the end of February.

This will be at Friska on Victoria Street in Bristol and we are in the process of contacting all DO SMITHers with more details and to confirm their attendance.

Please get in touch if you would like to be invited to this or future events.

The fifth DO SMITH event is this coming Wednesday (13 June 2012).  It will be a hands-on session working on solving problems for a Bristol based social enterprise called Kick Start, a social enterprise that supports both disengaged students (through their Heroes programme) and teachers who need help integrating children from ethnic minorities into classrooms.

There will be plenty to eat and drink and, based on previous events, it will be an enjoyable few hours with like-minded business owners.

We look forward to welcoming the following entrepreneurs:

Tom Barnes from Barnes Graham.

Kevin Broadley from Beef, ’Digital thinking and doing’.

Chris Brooker from iM Service Design.

Ed Brown and Griff Holland, co-owners of Friska Food.

Mike Harvey from Amalgam, the model making group.

Mark Panay from Simpleweb.

John Spencer from The Cheddar Gorge Cheese Company.

Gildas Jones from Dial a Geek.

Rob Law from Magmatic and Trunki.

Paul King from The Beyond Partnership.

Kevin Mashford from Utopia Group.

John Thatcher from Thatcher Associates.

James Hutchins from James Chocolates.

Finally the team from DO SMITH who have helped to put it all together:

Alison Larkman, founder of Internal Workings.

Clare Lindstrand from Dept. 707.

Mick Dickinson from Buzzed Up.

James Lott from Working Knowledge.

Becky Bainbridge from DO SMITH.

and last but not least Steve King and Antony Clark from F-works.

If you’d like to attend the next BIG DO SMITH Event on the 10th July or have any questions please get in touch – yes@do-smith.co.uk

Our next DO SMITH event will be focussing on a Bristol based social enterprise called Kick Start, a social enterprise that supports both disengaged students (through their Heroes programme) and teachers who need help integrating children from ethnic minorities into classrooms.

The event will be on the evening of Wednesday 13 June and we’ll be contacting DO SMITH entrepreneurs who we believe have experience which is relevant for Kick Start later this week.  Email us (address at the top of this page) if you would like to get involved.

We’ve had some news from DEKI which means we are going to have to cancel the next DO SMITH event which was pencilled in for 18 April.  We’d like to pass our apologies to everyone who was looking forward to attending the event; we’re as disappointed as you are.

Strangely, this cancellation is actually the result of good news.  DEKI, the social enterprise who were to be the subject of the next event, have suddenly had great news regarding major funding and are now in a period of rapid development to focus on this opportunity.  We can’t pass any more details than this at the moment but we’ll update everyone as soon as we can.

As DEKI’s issues have now changed from those identified for the DO SMITH event and a major change is in process, Vashti (DEKI’s founder) agreed that it would be best to return to DO SMITH once things have settled down.

We’ve already started work identifying an alternative social enterprise and pulling a new case study together and will let you know as soon as we have more details of when the event with a new social enterprise will go ahead.

I’m sure you’ll join me in wishing DEKI every success with their great new opportunity.